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[JohnGordon]

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Iv got a problem with my dipped beam and main beam as they don't work (bulbs and wiring seem fine), iv narrowed it down (the best i can) to the pink replay near the steering column

the austin/rover number (i think) is DRC6520 and the lucas number is 37805A

can anyone help?

EDIT: And where can I get 1 from?

Edited by JohnGordon, 25 July 2008 - 09:28 AM.

[Ethel]

If Minispares don't have one, there's a fair chance you'll get one in any scrappers as they are common on anything remotely Roverish of a similar age, also worth asking a motor factors or Lucas centre.

[JohnGordon]

If Minispares don't have one, there's a fair chance you'll get one in any scrappers as they are common on anything remotely Roverish of a similar age, also worth asking a motor factors or Lucas centre.

All the electrical people I deal with at work seem to think its either discontinued or its austin-rover only part but with rover dealers in short supply im having a hard time

[JohnGordon]

Iv had a thought! have a picture!

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[Ethel]

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...p3286.m14.l1318 how hard was that?

Land Rover & LDV still have dealers

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Thats the old part number, now supercedes to this http://www.minispare....aspx?pid=33955

Brand New Rover boxed units

[JohnGordon]

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...p3286.m14.l1318 how hard was that?

Land Rover & LDV still have dealers

thanks ethel and thanks simon

Edited by JohnGordon, 25 July 2008 - 10:18 AM.

[JohnGordon]

oh have you got them in simon? I checked the david manners site (i work wth jags) and it rekons 10 days to get them in?

[[email protected]]

Got 7 available

[Dan]

Won't cure your problem though. This relay has nothing to do with the main beam circuit at all and very little to do with the normal dipped beam. Check the headlamp earth bullets.

[JohnGordon]

Won't cure your problem though. This relay has nothing to do with the main beam circuit at all and very little to do with the normal dipped beam. Check the headlamp earth bullets.

Hi Dan, I've checked them all and had a mate who's an auto electrician and he's been through it could only narrow it down to that. Is there anything other than the earths I should be looking for?

[chris_gilly]

Won't cure your problem though. This relay has nothing to do with the main beam circuit at all and very little to do with the normal dipped beam. Check the headlamp earth bullets.

true,
try and earth the headlamps at the actual lights, see if they work??? or try and bridge the connections were the relay goes. my hazards went dodgy and i bridged them to see if the relay was to fault. and it was.. hope this helps

[ostridge]

Designer:
88:


Iv got a problem with my dipped beam and main beam as they don't work (bulbs and wiring seem fine), iv narrowed it down (the best i can) to the pink replay near the steering column

the austin/rover number (i think) is DRC6520 and the lucas number is 37805A

can anyone help?

EDIT: And where can I get 1 from?

I think I have the same problem - trying to diagnose if DimDip relay is the culpret
1989 Mini 998 twin cluster. Relay is marked Lucas 13DA; 12 volt naturally; DRC6520.


I had to rebuild the side / headlight swith, and improve the contacts onto the back of the switch, using appropriate slim screwdrivers to crimp the contacts a bit better, as they had been arcing.
The full beam flash works fine,
The sidelights turned on then the Dim Dip works fine with ignition on.
When I turn on headlights though they don't work neither full nor the normal power dip.

I have been checking the fuses in main 4 fuse box, as well as the triple line fuse blovk at back of air filter.
the rear fog also not working because I assume headlights not working.

Have I said enough to narrow it down to the DimDip Relay DRC6520. If it were poor earth at the headlights then the flash and dim would also not work.

Ay ideas welcome.

Edited by ostridge, 24 July 2009 - 09:39 PM.

[Sprocket]

Dim Dip relay!!, recently diagnosed one that was the same, swapped it out for a good known one and it fixed the problem.

Find some one with a car that has working lights with dim dip and swap the relay to prove that the relay is at fault.

One certain Mini 'specialist' told my mate that there is never a problem with these relays, yet I have seen two with in the last year that have been faulty

[ostridge]

Hi Sprocket, Many thanks for the reply.